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Planning the family menu and entering recipes
The author gave Claude access to their pantry system to enter recipes and suggest the week's meals.
- Profession
- Parent
- Tools
- Claude Cowork
- Source
- tech.yahoo.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
The author uses Grocy (pantry tracking) and let Claude, with computer use, type in recipes from cookbooks and the internet, adjusted for four people. They then tested picking three meals and letting Claude pick two more.
How it went
Claude entered the recipes and created the product categories, with a few manual adjustments.
Good to know
Review quantities and portions: scaling recipes automatically can produce odd numbers.
The prompt
Here are [number] recipes: [paste or attach]. Adjust all of them for [number] people and put together a [days]-day menu, reusing ingredients. At the end, give me the shopping list grouped by store section.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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